Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

voice-over by Orson Welles.

I just wanna see the motherfucker deny it (the fart)

Actually ppl might find it endearing

i'm gonna pivot to providing text descriptions of videos. could be the fabled Million Dollar Idea i've been chasing

Rick Astley, a British singer, appears on screen, dancing a trifle awkwardly. A synthesized string riff plays over a sonically thin, quantized drum-machine beat. He begins by declaring that "we're no strangers to love."

He proceeds to list things that he is never gonna do. These include...

Another video for silby to not watch:

There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they're forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus.

To those hurting, I'm so sorry for your loss. The nation grieves with you. pic.twitter.com/SBBRKV4mPZ

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 27, 2020

Political hacks talk about the "Rose Garden campaign," where an incumbent campaigns in a way that suggests he's somehow above petty political squabbling, and instead does high-minded leader-type stuff. Since Donald Trump is totally incapable of non-pettiness, and in fact is busy obsessing over at least two or three insane beefs that exist entirely in his own mind - with Joe Scarborough, with Twitter - it's interesting to see Biden doing stuff like this.

it's good, for sure. it's also what pretty much any candidate would do. trump is so narcissistic that even his supporters don't expect him to care about all the people who died.

(also the beef with twitter isn't in his own mind - he's done a million things that deserve to be banned, and many people have been calling for him to face some sort of accountability from twitter, for years now. twitter did the very least they could do, yesterday, in adding a "here's the truth about mail-in ballots" link to a couple of his posts. but even that was likely only done to distract from the fact that on the same they also announced they wouldn't be granting the father of the deceased scarborough staffer's request to ban the living fuck out of trump.)

Twitter have frequently demonstrated that the least that they can do is absolutely nothing, though.

(this is not really a defense!)

This is gonna be hilarious:

White House says Trump will sign an executive order "pertaining to social media" tomorrow, but provides no details on what it might say or do.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 27, 2020

Right to Tweet is now the 12th Amendment, no more voting

I need to find the passage in Notes on Virginia about Jefferson's response to Bezos imo

whut

pic.twitter.com/VaiPYIudSp

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) May 30, 2020

the cros lost some weight

slimming down to be competitive for the VP slot

Five years from now, seven more people who won't be talking to David Crosby.

Real murderers' row there

Why is Joe Walsh giving a lazy Hitler salute?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZYuxkeWkAcmLo_?format=jpg&name=large

loafers, what a chump

rufus wainwright kinda out of place there famewise

klobuchar vp pick seems impossible now

as if. Lotsa people still love cops.

she'll probably get on TV and do something statesmanlike any day now

Biden said "there are a lot of different things that can change" about police training. One example he said was if cops rushed by unarmed person, they could "shoot them in the leg instead of the heart is a very different thing."

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) June 1, 2020

such DECENCY

Something like half the American public would view "police should shoot to incapacitate, but not kill" as possibly a sensible alternative to killing unarmed people, and one that should receive serious consideration. Because they are dopes.

disarm the police

Protestors in Berlin don’t worry about being shot by police because German police have killed about 100 people in the past 20ys. Ours top that every 3 months. Their cops are trained for 2+ yrs. The weapons training is literally called “don’t shoot” and focuses on deescalation. https://t.co/i5l0uhVotk

— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) May 31, 2020

wow german cops must be some chill dudes

Here is the footage of Biden delivering police training:

Biden today on police training: "Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there's an unarmed person comin' at 'em with a knife or something to shoot 'em in the leg instead of the heart is a very different thing." pic.twitter.com/2xgqvlQtJ2

— The Recount (@therecount) June 1, 2020

he is going to continue making bizarre and incoherent comments for the rest of his public life. a truly outrageous situation

I wouldn't write this off as some bizarre aberration lol. Man loves cops.

he should read the room though

without bifocals?

milo and xyzzzz make a good tag team, but they forgot to tag up.

I hope Joe Biden dies soon!

Just don't shoot him in the leg, obv. that's NBD

milo and xyzzzz make a good tag team, but they forgot to tag up.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 1 June 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Vote Democrat and we'll train cops to shoot in the leg not the heart. #voteSleepyJoe

Look, fat, we can all agree that three days of cops shooting journalists and bystanders in the face across America is, it's not, we, there's an ideal to aspire to. Under a Joe Biden presidency, we'll be partnering with the tech sector to teach cops to shoot journalists in the genitals, the soft parts.

I hope Joe Biden dies soon!

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, 1 June 2020 20:59 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

please just put this disaster of a party and its geriatric leadership to sleep

after 2024

why not January 21

either way I mean

Look, I have to defend marriage and couplehood and I think they're wretched, so.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/killing-of-george-floyd-shows-our-over-reliance-on-police.html

"But the architects of broken-windows policing misidentified its source, and so do their descendants. Did the people fail the state or did the state fail the people? The liberal politician might concede the latter. He may even approve some new welfare spending or, in the case of de Blasio, experiment with programs like universal pre-K. On the subject of the police, and incarceration, they advocate body cameras and civilian review boards. But that’s often where they stop. The police still know they can beat, shoot, and kill with almost complete impunity in blue and red states alike. Mayors like de Blasio will defend them and repeat their version of events to the press. Governors like Cuomo will give them more money. Democratic voters will nominate the architect of the 1994 crime bill to be president. Matters will go on as usual — unless protesters force a true reckoning."

Biden policy prescriptions in this speech:

-Ban chokeholds by federal legislation
-Set up national use-of-force best practices
-Stop military gear transfers to local police
-End Trump's support for anti-ACA lawsuit
-Expand the ACA

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 2, 2020

That third one is at least on point

words til we see em

remember when Obama promised to walk labor pickets